Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1902, Page 6

S — ———— R ———— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1902 THE OMAHA DAY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLIBHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. v diee (without Sunday), One Year. 3% y e Une Year. Lliustrated ear Bunday Bee, One Year, turday Bée, One Year Twengleth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy. Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week....12 Daily Bee (including Sunday), per week..17 Bunday Bec, per co \ . oe vening Bee (without Bunday), per week 6c Svening Bee (ncluding Sunday), per Complaints ‘of irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. South Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Nfth and M Streets, Councll Bluffs—10 Peari Street. Chicago—164 Unity Building New York—2%8 Park Row Bullding. Washington—601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications rel forial matter should torial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Dougla: rge B. Tzschuck, sec Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ®ays that the actual number of full and gomplete coples of The Lally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed duri month of November, 1%2, was as {0lio GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to betore me this %ih day of November, A. D, w0z, 1B, HUNGATE, (Beal) Notary Publl It we are to have a free-for-all power franchise, why limit the motive force to electricity generated by water power. Employes of the street railway com- pany don't care how fast the company’s eapltalization grows if their pay grows apace. P It must be the smooth way President Roosevelt arranged the coal strike arbl- tration that has made him in demand as an arbitrator among all the nations of the earth. — It's all right to remove the ecattle quarantine as soon as the danger is over, but this Is a case wher: makiag hasto slowly would prove economical in the lonz run. —r— Governor Savage says he is going to make his Christmas presents by exercise of his pardoning power. . He can make such presents without going into his own pocketbook. i L 8 The state of South Dakota resorts to the peaceful method of suing the state of North Carolina on the latter's repudi- ated bonds Instead of sending warships to seize the revenues and blockade the coasts of its defaulting creditor. —— It appears after all that Mascagni is destined to leave a goodly sum of the coin of Humbert’s realm In this coun- Ary as the result of his tour for exploit- ing the pockets of American lovers of art if only as fees to lawyers to keep him out of trouble. There 1s a loud call for an arbitrator between €rown Prince Frederick of BSaxony and Crown Rrincess Loulse, who has left her husband’s bed and board. An International court of royal reconciliation might come in handy for the estranged pair. —_— The rain began to pour down as soon as President Roosevelt left Washington for his outing at Rapldan and never ceased till his return, so that he now realizes how It was when the union armies started out to campalgn in Vir. ginla forty years ago. Spain and all other foreign nations may take notice that, notwithstanding a certaln sensational occurrence in Ha- vana harbor not long ago, the United Btates has now afloat another battle- ship Maine, incomparably more formid- able than the one that was sent to Davy Jones' locker. ] A report from the Omaha Woman's club on the practical results achleved by its humanitarian resolution obligating members to relieve the shop girls by making their sholiday - purchases early would be an interesting document. It ought to earry an appendix, too, giving the shop girls’ side of the story. sl Another reform the Impending legis- lature should institute is a law making the fiscal year for the school board coln- clde with the calendar year, the same as for all other departments of our eity government. Such a change by itself would put a stop to most of the anuual hocus pocus of school fund finances. All the Bartley newspaper organs, big and little, have had word to shower the great pardoner with a profusion of bou- quets an his exit from office. Keep your eye along the line and wateh them come to the front. And the papers most ar- dent in their apologies for Bartley will be most lavish In their encomiums for Bavege. —— A local lawyer wants $30,000 for his services In helping the stockholders of a defunct bank compromise with the cred- Itors on the basls of about 30 cents on the dollar. It is & laudable practice for lawyers to place a high value on thelr services, so in this case an opportunity 18 surely offered for sowe other legal luminary to earn a fat fee on paper by belping the same bank stockholders to gompromise this claim for about 30 cents ¢|of a helpful kind shall be enacted. 10c | Fecess that the prospects of reporting CUNFUSING THE QUESTIUN. The numegrous bills that have been Introduced In congress proposing various methods of dealing with the trusts must have a tendency to confuse the question and thus impair the chances for legisla- tion, at least at the present session. Those who have given careful attention to the anti-trust situation In congress say that it Is distinetly discouraging to those who are anxious that legislation It was stated by some of the Washington correspondents just before the holiday and passing a really satisfactory bill in the house of representatives were worse, if anything, than they had been, and even the assurance that some measure will be feported by the middle of Janu- ary and passed by the beginning of February gave no hope whatever to those who understand the nature of the bill that will be reported and who' con- sider the temper which now prevails In the senate. 4 With a diversity of propositions urged for consideration, it is easy to under- stand that a great deal of perplexity is likely to be the result. Of the meas- ures that have been Introduced no two are altogether along the same lines and the general divergence is radical. Con- servatism and moderation charactérize few of these bills, the authors of which seemed to feel that In order to command attention for their bills, particularly on the part of the public, it was necessary to propose extreme and even very drastic conditions. Thus, for example, there is a bill which proposes to force into bank- ruptey all assoclations of a certain kind, under specified conditions, though It would be Impossible to establish the facts to be considered grounds of bank- ruptcy and no effective means is pro- vided for determining when proceedings of this kind will be in order. Another measure proposes the establishment of a uniform price throughout the United States for trust-made goods and s de- signed to prevent large corporations from driving rivals out of the business in specified localities by lowering prices in those localities. It s pointed out that the trouble with this measure is that it does not provide any criterion for the recognition of trusts or of articles produced by them. It is of course possible that'out of the diversity of plans something prac- tical and capable of effective operation will be evolved. Senator Hoar, who Is understood to be framing an anti-trust bill, or some other able and experienced statesman, may present a measure that will meet the requirements and perhaps stand a constitutional test. But, greatly as it 1s to be desired that there shall be legislation by this congress dealing with the trusts, the prospect of securing it Is less favorable than could be wished. yee——ee— THESTATES AND FOOD ADULTERATION, The decision of the supreme court of the United States in the pure food case, | golng up from Missouri, settles broadly the principle in which the states may deal with that subject. It opens the way for the several legislatures to pro- vide effectively for the public health so far as food adulteration is concerned. The majority of the states have stat- utes against deleterious food com- pounds, but most of them are loosely drawn and there have always been doubts as to thelr constitutionality. In the lack of vigorous public sentiment and in the uncertainty as to the en- forcement of penalties, state laws have for the most part been dead letters and the practice of adulteration has gone on unhindered. Many articles of food are 8o generally adulterated that the mere fact that the retaller handles and sells them does not necessarily prove fraud- ulent purpose on his part. but only that it has come to be a matter of accepted custom. Nothing now stands in the way to pre- vent the state legislatures from making the most ample provisions to safeguard the purity of food supplies or to inter- fere with the enforcement of state laws which are adequate. The weakest point of most of the existing statutes {s that they fall to put dealers of all degrees sufficlently upon their guard as to the articles they handle, throwing upon them the burden of being sure of their purity and harm- lessuess to users. A very elaborate and rigid system of inspection would hardly a8 yet be warranted, but reasonable penalties can now be made effective against willful imposition upon the pub- le with spurlous foodstufrs, —_—— WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. The latest develobment in. . wireless telegraphy, characterized by the acfing premier of Canada as “the greatest feat modern sclence has yet achleved," is accomplish all that he has promised and 1s very likely to cause a modification of such opinion as that expressed by Colonel Reber, formed before the new est development of what wireless teleg- raphy Is capable of. At any rate, the results are of great sclentific interest and give promise of practical benefits of immeasurable value. THE STATEHUOD CUNTEST. There is unquestionably a very gen- eral feeling in the west in favor of giv- ing statehood to New Mexico and Ari- zona, as well as Oklahoma. It may be admitted that the report of the subcom- mittee of the senate committee on ter- ritories presents some forcible reasons against admitting New Mexico and Ari- zona, and the speech of Senator Dilling- ham of Vermont in support of that re- port contains strong points, but neither is entirely convineing and they fail to satisfy the unprejudiced mind that it Is necessary for the general welfare to keep those territories longer out of the union and thus disregard the pledge given them by the republican party in its last national platform. Grant that in some things New Mex- fco and Arizona are deficient, yet it Is true that in all the requirements for statehood they are better off than were a number of the states when admitted, and would undoubtedly develop under statehood quite as rapidly as have thos» states. Given self-government, New Mexico and Arizona will do just what all American communities have done when enfranchised with statehood. They will ill up with an American pop- ulation and go forward In development and enlightenment. There is no danger that those territories could not take care of themselves if given statehood, and no political consideration should in- fluence the question of their admission. S —y THE OPEN DUOK PUWEK FRANCHISE. The free-for-all amendment tacked onto the power franchise ordinance is an insult to the Intelligence of the com- munity. Itis an open secret that it had its inspiration in the avowed purpose in the management of the New Omaha Thomson-Houston Electric Lighting com- pany to strangle the project under pre- text that Omaha is Interested in main- taining the open door for everybody will- ing to compete for supplying the city with electric power. No capitallst or syndicate would ven- ture to invest two or three million dol lurs in a power canal without some as- surance or guaranty of reasonable in- terest on the amount invested. A free- forall fronchise Instead of attracting capitai would repel capital. To submit such a proposition to the voters of Omaba only adds insult to injury. The people of Omaha, we feel sure, are not in a framie of mind to be trifled with in such manner, Councilmen who have been persuaded that it would not be safe to let the vot- ers of Omaha . dectde for themselves whether they favor or disapprove the proposed franchise ordinance will retain their oWn self-respect better by voting down the entire ordinance without amendment than by choking it to death by amendments that are pnlpnbly‘de- signed to frustrate the enterprise. —_— THE HOLIDAY TRADE. Only a day remains to closé the chap- ter of the holiday trade for 1902 and local merchants will soon be taking In- ventory to measure up the results. Tak- Ing Into consideration the unfavorable weather conditions, Omaha retailers re- port a brisk business, almost up to ex- pectations and well ahead of the records of former years. From the standpoint of the patron and purchaser the season has also been emi- nently satisfactory. The enterprise of our local establishments was hever ex- hibited to better advantage not only in the varlety of the goods placed at the disposal of the public and the attractive form in which they are displayed, but also in the accommodating service ex- tended on every hand and the prompt fulfillment of the orders of customers, Omaha people have a right to feel a Just pride In the number and character of their up-to-date retall establishments. They want-to see them prosper because their prosperity is shared by the entire community, and they hope the holiday season just closing will prove full of promise for the future. Sm—————— You must go away from home to hear the news. According to the Globe-Dem- ocrat of 8t. Louls, Nebraska is agitated from center to circumference over tha alleged challenge issued by a Beatrice attorney to the supreme court to re- discuss with him its decision agalnst bible reading in the public schools and the challenge has reached fever heat. certainly of very great importance, though it does not conclusively demon- strate that wireless telegraphy can ever be relied upon for commercial purposes. In a lecture a few days ago before the National Geographle soclety Lieutenant Colonel Reber of the signal corps said that the experience of the last two years has clearly shown that the proper sphere of wireless telegraphy is commu- nication between shore and ship and be- tween ships at sea. He expressed the opinfon that neither the cable systems In Nebraska, however, the challenge fs regarded with supreme Indifference and the temperature instead of being at 98 Fahrenhelt is only 3 degrees above zero. — Any reference of the Venezuelan troubles to The Hague arbitration tri- bunal would not change the status of the Monroe doctrine by & hair's breadth. That tribunal would have to take notice of the doctrine. Its valldity rests uli- mately on the physical and moral powgr of the United States, which has been nor the land lines will be supplanted by wireless telegraphy, adding: “No re- sults overland have been obtained that can at present warrant its acceptance as a commercial means of transmission. While messages overland have been successfully exehanged up to distances of fifty and sixty miles when the at- mospherie, local, the thermal condl- tions were favorable, that uninterrupted communication which is essential to commercial fuccess has not as yet been @chleved.” Colonel Reber further sald that the rellability of this method of communication and its probable speed will have to be demonstrated before it becomes a commercial possibility. Still the latest success of Marcon! will ‘strengthen confidence in his ability to sufficient for three-quarters of a cen- tury to vindicate it. The good people of Beutrica are in- deed playing in hard luck with their succession of destructive fires. Beatrice, however, 1s a thriving, pushing city that will not be dismayed Ly visits of the fire flend. It will go right ahead with redoubled energy, If necessary, and keep Its rank among Nehrdska's most pros- perous communities. No doubt E. H. Harriman is deeply chagrined by his defeat by J. J. Hill for the comtract for carrying government supplies to the army in the Philippines, but the report can hardly be true that he bas on that account gone atfer the e scalps of Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Thelr scalps wouldn't pay the frelght. Drifted Far from His Trade. Washington Post. Before securing his present job President Castro sold whisky for a Clncinnati firm. It is belleved he made a much better sales- man than he does an executive. A rance of Pe Chicago Inter Ocean. ‘When the present little cloud rolls by and it is found that our amicable relations with forelgn powers have not been dis- turbed, we shall nevertheless always con- gratulate ourselves that Admiral George Dewey was within one day’s sall of possible trouble. Anticipated Pleasure. Cincinnat! Enquirer, There may be some great doings at Wash- ington this winter, but congress does not start off with a seeming purpose to get ex- clted about anything. There is a tendency to merely attend to the appropriation bills for the next year or two and leave the great big questions to be fought over in the presi- dential campaign of 1904, The Terror of the Or Chicago Chronicle. If the Honorable “E1 Mocho” Hernandes of Venezuela is not libeled by his pub- lished portraits the terror which he has in- spired during the last f¢w years is comprehensible. looks like a com- bination of the late Black Jack Yattaw and Bill Dalton, with a suggestion of James Hamilton Lewis in the cut of his ‘whiskers. More Profitable Than Striking. Indianapolls Journal. As a result of five weeks' consultation between the engineers and firemen of the Chicago & Northwestern rallroad and the officers of the road the men got an in- crease of wages aggregating $600,000 a year. During the long discussion the old wage schedule was gone over, item by item, and every one settled on a friendly basis. This is better than striking. Tarn in Tide of Capital. San Francisco Chronicle. The state constitution of Nebraska pro- vides that the school fund shall mot be Invested or loaned except upon United States securities. Within the next five years it is expected that the fund will reach the sum of $12,000,000. The sum of $300,000 has already been invested In Massachusetts bonds. This fact is re- markable, as it marks a reversal of the tide of capital, which has hitherto flowed steadlly westward, Most Solidly Prosperous People. Atlanta Constitution. The grand army of American farmers is sowing and reaping prosperity and taking a day off occasionally to go to the ecircus, laugh at the clown and forget there are any politicians nearer the earth than the dog star. The real farmers of this nation are, outside of the large speculative in- dustries, the most solidly prosperous and independent body of our citizens. They are established in that greatest of enterprises— the supply .of the breadstuffs of humanity— and as other industries and occupations multiply, the importance and profitableness of farming increases continually. Great Speed in Pension Bills, Boston Transcript. The record the house of representatives made one day last week in passing 174 private pension “bills in. thirty-nine minutes is not one to be proud of. At this rate almost five: pension bills a miute ‘were passed, or onme every twelve seconds. No machine run' by the swiftest electric motor could possibly exceed the speed the house attains in adding to the list of pen- slons or increasing, the rates of penslons. The wonder is that in these days of labor- saving inventions a legislative Edison does not arise to invent a pensionometer, which will save the house trouble by converting applications into pensions while the appli- cant waits. American Christmas Trees Abroad, New York Tribune. A feature of the Christmas tree indus- try which has developed In the east Is the shipment of fir and spruces from New York to Porto Rico, Cuba, Mexico and Brasil for use as Christmas trees. Wherever Americans travel they take with them their traditions, and the pine tree, adorned with its colored candles and tinsel orna- ments will deck the home on Christmas eve it the mercury stands at 90 outside and tropic palms wave overhead in the breeze of perpetual summer. Like the Irishman's #hamrock, brought over sea carefully and anxiously from the old sod for each St. Patrick's day, the Christmas tree for the American in tropical countries fs welcomed with fully as much emotion and perhaps not thrown dishomored and dis- honably into the ashcart after it has served as the chief figure in the worlds greatest holiday. It may be permitted to stand In its dark green glory for weeks, shedding Its aromatic reminiscence of ‘home” across the water. Next to the American flag in a foreign land as an in- spiration to the exile is an American Christmas tree. GERMANY AND THE U ED STATES, Trade Relations as Affected by the New Tariff, Philadelphia Press. The new German tariff, increasing duties heavily on breadstuffs and provisions, will burt the Germans more than forelgners. The Germans have excluded already, by un- fair methods, provisions and breadstuffs to about as great an extent as they can well stand. In the last fiscal year they imported from the United States $45,500,000 in value of broadstuffs and provisions. There {8 no surplus stock of these articles anywhere. Germany must either go without them or clse pay Increased prices. Its principle erticle of import from the United States is raw cotton, of which $70,416,000 worth were imported last year. It cannot obtain this cotton elsewhere, and if it is to continue manufacturing it will have to buy it in the future, as in the past, in this country. Nine years ago it imported only $36,900,989 worth of cotton, The increase of $34,000,000 worth in nine years is due to its increased manufacturing processes. It imports from the United States almost wholly raw materials. Cotton takes the lead, provisions and breadstuffs follow, and then, in order, are mineral oll, copper in- unmanufactured tobacco, ollcake and Of agricultural implements only $1,862,672 worth were imported in the last fiscal year. It may be wise to increase the duty on raw materials, but that is not our The imports trom the United States in the last fiscal year were $18,600,000 less than in the previous year. But that was in part due to the prosperous situation in the United States, leaving less available for export, and in part to the business depres- sion in Germany. The nmew tariff law will probably, when it goes into effect, further injure trade with this country, as well as with others. Germany sold more to the United States In the last fiscal year than in any previous year, excepting the last r of the Wilson tariff law. The United States could cut off nearly all of the Ger- man lmports without any loss. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK, Ripples on the Current of Life 1 Metropolin, Christmas shopping In the stores of Omaha is regarded by the experienced as & form of exercise closely approaching the foot ball. The game as played here is as mild as a pink tea compared with “the real thing” to be seen and felt in the de- partment stores of New York. Shopping there is a foot ball rush from morning till late at night, with successive changes of players. Women rush in and come out exhilerated and triumphant at the other slde, while the men stand back and walt for a chance to slip through. Thus they miss a rare opportunity for the cultivation of wind and muscle. There is no fancy about this sketch. There is only one way to make it and that is to fight It is curious, too. A woman who would turn blue and froth at the mouth if any- one should so rush her and pummel her on the street or in a rallroad station will fubmit to have her clothes torn from her back or her front halr dragged away in a department store slugging match with no more than a gentle protest or a mild ex- postulation. She knows that other women have the same rights as herself, and no more. That they are all but portions of an army storming these mercantile walks; that inasmuch as others have done so unto her, so she has unto them. The motto seems to be, “If you see a corn, step on it.” Once in & while—a great while, perhaps— the youthful housekeeper executes a coup i a domestic crisis, which puts older and more experienced matrons to the blush. So it was with tho Bronx bride, whose strategy 18 detalled by the Evening Post. There was mud and slush a-plenty along the block of alleged Queen Anne cottages, but within their cellars there was no coal. A mass meeting of wives and mothers revealed sor- row and {ndignation, but no plan for rellef, no scheme by which the unteeling coal agent could be induced to relent in his pre- diction that he would be unable to get any more coal for ten days. Reports from con- tiguous nursery precincts indicated that the barometer was falling rapidly to “‘croup and sore throat The next evening at dusk eight weary horses dragged four heavy loads of anthra- cite through the street. The bride stood on the stoop with tear-dimmed ecyes and watched them pass. The driver espled her. “Can you tell me, mum, where it is that the Blanks live hereabouts? I've hauled this coal all the way from Pler A, and the horses are beat out. If I can't find 'em be- fore it sets in clean dark, I'll dump the stuff In the street.” The bride was down the steps and at the heads of the leading team in a second. She inspected the elght horses gravely and mi- nutely. “We all belong to the Soclety for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals in this street,” she announced to the driver, “‘and if you make these horses haul that load any further, I'll have to have you arrested.” It was not hard to intimidate a tired driver, nine miles from his stable at 5:30 on a winter evening. There were no stranded coal wagons upon the street when the re- turning colony of husbands arrived for din- ner. But the cheerful warmth that greeted them was a surprise. It was the bride who was the guest of honor at the evening theater party. The Trinity buflding and its site, at No. 111 Broadway, have been 80ld at the bewll- dering price of nearly $198 a square foot, the total for the property reaching the amazing sum of nearly*$2,250,000. “In a few generatlons,” says the Tribune, “every Inch of ground upon Manhattan Island may rep- resent an outlay which in the days of good old Peter Stuyvesant would have been thought fabulous. Bven the wildest im- aginings of possible real estate values in the period of the Dutch domination are far eurpassed by the sober realitles of the present. The notorious *‘spite house” of New York City, five feet wide and 102.2 long, four stories high—built by Joseph Richardson, a wealthy contractor, because an owner of adjoining property wouldn't pay him his price for it—has just been sold by Miss Dellarifa Grace Richardson, his daughter. Real estate dealers have bought the house, but what they can want with it is a puzzle —though they are sald to consider it a bar- galn for any other buyer at $15,000. Fancy what the stalrways must be in such a structure! Every plece of furniture had to be designed expressly for its place. Yet the Richardsons dwelt in it for nigh twenty years. At a recent examination of a number of heefy and broad-footed young men who were candidates for appointment on the police force, this question appeared upon the papers: “What does the word Knick- erbocker mean, and what was its origin?" Most of the young men knew, but didn't know in the right way. “It's the name of a beer made in Willlamsburg," was one answer. Others were: “The name the Indlans gave to the first Dutchman who came to New York.” “A joke got on New York a long time ago by George Wash- ington.” “The name of an ice company— you see it oo all the wagons.” “The Indian name of the tobacco plant.” “It came from wearing short pant An odd Christmas reminder was noticed at the foot of Wall street one day last week. A score of heavily loaded trucks were con- gregated there walting a chance to unload for the Havana eteamer. On one of the trucks were a bundle of handsome Christ. mas trees. They were going to Havana to the homes of some of the American colony, where Christmas will be celebrated in the good old fashion. And what a queer Christ- mas celebration it will be with the ther mometer standing at about 80 or 90 degrees above zero. But the spirit of Christmas will be there. PERSONAL NOTES. “Coffin John" Fitchette, the last of the jurors empaneled to try Jefferson Davis, has just died in Minneapolis. Senator Clark is a veritable count of Monte Cristo. It fs all he can do to get his checks cashed in Greater New York. The good taste of the White House re- furnishings and refurbishings suggests that Mrs, Roosevelt has been acting as a min- ister of the interior. The striking miners in Paris are making no trouble. They find enough of it already made in the French Chamber of Deputies to furnish ample excitement. Mr. Carnegle has promised to be present at the dedication of his new $350,000 library in Washington, January 7. His collection of lbraries now amounts to upward of 1,000, Bachelors and bachelor gifls are twice as prope to crime as married men and women, according to statistics lately pro- mulgated by Dr. C. R. Henderson of the University of Chicago. Senator Pettus raised a laugh while dis- cussing the militia bill. He had submbitted to several interruptions with good grace, but when Foraker kept on talking for some fifteen minutes the venerable senator from Alabama—he is the oldest man in the sen- ate—tapped his desk sharply and said: “See bere, Mr. President, I have been trying to make this speech for some time, and 1 don't want any other senator to make it for me, either.” Foraker looked astonished for & moment, but took his seat amid & general laugh. Removal of fences from public lands in the Wwest, say the cattle and range mag- | nates, would blight the prosperity of com- | munities without securing any commensu- | rate public advantage by way of compensa- | tlon. This, however, is by no means the | view of the land office authorities. The ferices are there only by right of eeizure, while the vast public domains which they Inclose are eagerly coveted by home- seekers. Farms or cattle ranges; di- versified agriculture or nomadic pasturage; a thriving and fncreasing population or vast herds ranging over silent and far- extended plaine of buffalo grass—such fs the choice that must bo made when the Iséue between homesteaders and cattle barons shall be pressed sharply home in the councils of national administration. | Milllons of acres have been illegally in- | closed, rights of settlers ignored and regu- lations of the public land office defled in order that cheap grazing grounds might be maintained for private profit at the public expense. If this practice is to be' con- tnued and legalized, -what 18 to become of the army of peaceful invaders whose mis- slon It is to make western wildernesses blossom as the rose? The struggle between conflioting Inter- ests in districts where cattle ranchers have been heretofore dominant has reached an acute stage in Nebraska and South Da- kota. By every avaflable device of lease or public entry, ingeniously designed to absorb vast areas of land, the cattlemen have been enabled to reduce to practlcal poesession whole townships and countles, Operating without check for many years, they have been enablod to set up effective Fencing Public Domain Philadelphia Record. barbed wire barriers to the growth ot buddiog communities. Their holdinks of grazing lands—cheap, well grassed and convenient to great lines of transportation —constitute an asset of immense value, and whethar rightfully held or not, will not be surrendered without desperate ro- sistance. United in a compact community of self-interest, with abundant financial re- sources and earnest advocates in both branches of congress, the grazers should enjoy marked advantages in preliminary legislative skirmishes for land, and yet more land. There Is no scarcity of acres—not even a remote possibility of {it—but only a tangle of conflicting interests, due largely to disregard or violation of the pubdlic land laws. It would be quite possible, no doubt, to meet the current demands of homesteaders and of the state in Nebraska without disturbing any legally acquired rights of the cattlemen. But this would by no means content the latter. The gov- ernment is to be asked to confirm. them in poescssion of great tracts of land to which their effective title is in wire fonces and the ready weapons of a mobile mass of cowboys. Fulling in this, temporary sanction for such encroachments is to be eought in modification by law of the ex- isting lease system, with & view, of course, to eventual and permanent control of lande now held in deflance of statutory inhibitions. It is not easy to see, under such conditions, where intending settle are to find due consideration, save in a rigld enforcement of existing land laws, even at the cost of sundry square leagu: of free cattle ranges. ‘NAMES OF STATES. Indian Names Are Good and Twenty- Six States Have Them. Hartford Courant. Somebody at Washington has suggested | that Oklahoma plus the Indian Territory be admitted into the union as the State of Jet- | ferson and that New Mexico plus Arizona be admitted as the State of McKinley, We file an immediate and emphatic objection to the names proposed for the new states—an objection on general principles. The place of Thomas Jefferson and Wil- liam McKinley in history and in the remem- brance of their country is secure. Those great men are not in any need of the clumsy compliment, an offense against good taste, which this person at the national capital would pay them. If living they would be the first to veto it. Their greatness will not be enhanced an fota by printing their names in big letters across colored spots on' the naps. is all wrong. It is bad enough that our broad strip of the continent should be so thick-sown with Jacksonvilles, Smithtowns, Jonesburgs, etc. Do we hear anybody at Washington proposing to change the name of Manila to Deweyville, or of S8antiago de Cuba to Roosevelton, or to San Juan de Porto Rico to Milesburg? It was a mistake to name our far northwestern state after the first president. There is no state of Lincoln; we hope there never will be, though his name (like Washington's and Jefterson’s) would lend itself- much more readily to such an unnecessary, undesirable use than the name of McKinley. ‘““The state of McKinley is bounded so and. so. The capltal of McKinley, et he principal pro- dutts of McKinley, ete.; the geological for- mation of McKinley, ets Does any Amer- ican really want to make a contribution of that sort to the geographles, cyclopedias and gasettan= 2 Connecticut is one of twenty-six states that have Indian names. Very good the Indian names are, though we once heard a red-whiskered British tourist in a railroad car express the opinion that Westport is a much more “sensible” name for a town than Saugatuck. Colorado, Florida, Nevada— these are musical names. Americans of this time have quite forgotten the royal vanity The naming of states after men | or royal favoritism or courler flattery that gave Virginla, the Carolinas, Georgla, Loulsiana, their names. The name of our! Dmpire state has utterly disassociated itselt from the memory of the duke of York in honor of whom it was bestowed; the name of Delaware suggests the noble river, but vot at all the amlable, dead-and-gone Eng- | lish nobleman. New Hampshire, Vermont, | Rthode Island, New Jersey are well enough; | Indian names would have been better, | Pennsylvania i a hybrid monster of a name that would have given Horace the shivers. It conveys from age to age the information that Friend Willlam Penn was a large landed proprietor and that his land was prineipally woodland. The suzgestion of the Washington person should be voted down. Oklahoma is a bet- ter name for a new state than Jefferson, and New Mexico (though not ideal) is a much better name for a new state than McKinley. EDUCATIONAL NOTES, One million dollars have been given for a school of education at Chicago university and about half this amount will be ex- pended on an enormous bufiding. St. Louls has the credit for many good thirgs In the world educational. Kinder- gartens were successful realities long before they had reached more than the experi- mental stage in other cities. Then the man- sal training school movement had its orlgin in St. Louls and now comes the portabla Fchool house to again add to the Missourl city's reputation for advanced effort along educational lines A man visited the schools of Beverly, Mass., and secured the services of several children to sell cheap jewelry for him, The police authorities investigated, and the man was fined $50, the judge stating that he considered the offense more flagrant than it the man had sold the jewelry himself without a license, as he tempted the chil- dren to ignorantly violate the law. Honors accumulate upon the head of Prof. Bimon Newcomb, the oldest and most emi- nent of living sclentists. The degree of doctor of philosophy has just been conferred upon him by the University of Christiania, He had before received similar distinctions from ten or twelve institutions, including the degree of doctor of divinity from Yale, Harvard and Columbla. He Is a member of the leading scientific socleties of BEurope and America and is euthor of many sclen- tific text books. The finance committes of teachers' col- lege, a branch of Columbia university, has issued a statement in regard to the college endowment, which glves some very inter- esating facts ag to the cost of tralning teach- ers. ubllec education has assumed im- mense proportions in the United States, it belng estimated that In the year 1509-1900 the public schouol attendance alone was 15,- 841,220, the number of teachers engaged was 421,288 and the amount expended was $213,- 274,34. This amount exceeded the total ex- penditures for both the army and navy by $22,546,508. Every year ugpward of 10,00 teachers must be trained to take the places of those who leave the profession. Chicago Post: “Clothes don't make the “True; and that's where man and woman atfrer.” Philadelphla Press: “Of course, John Is a thoroughly English name.” h, 1 don't know." h, but it fs, The ‘b, you'll notice, isn't sounded at all Cleveland Plain Dealer: ‘‘Has your wife asked you what you want for Christmas?’ “No, ‘and I fear the worst."” Boston Bulletin: *They say some biind people ean_actuaily, distinguish. colors by the gense of touch.” ¥ “That's nothing; there are times when I teel blue myself Chicago Record-Herald: ‘‘Well, Johnnie, what are you going to give your little brother for Christmas?” I give him the measles last New York Weekly: Husband—Didn't I tell you that was a secret, and you were not fo tell it to any one? ‘Wife—You told me it was a secret, but you did not say I was not to tell 1t to any one. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “That new $10,- 000,000 financial institution in New York has a president who started in as a messenger boy.”" Ptessenger boy! ever got there.” I aldn’t suppose they Whushington Star: ‘Remember,” sald the earnest friend, “that when you accept public office you are placed in possession of a great trust.” “That is different from the last remark I heard on_the subject,” said Benator Sor- ghum, "It was to the effect that a trust was in possession of m THE OHRISTMAS STAR. . Augusta Prescott. A _star swung out of Heaven, High over the earth it swiing— A lofty gleaming By cloud ntinel, riands, hung. Its light swept over the mountain, And into the valley it swept— Till it gleamed on the Palace of Caesar, And Into the manger crept. The Emperor paused with his goblet, lilgh in his uplitied hand, p&l-v And trembled A one with the At the light that flooded the lan A Bnbr lay in {ts mang And looked with a Baby's surgeise~ And lifted its little hands upward To shelter the ray from its eyes. A searchlight gwung from Heaven, A_gleaming Christmas eta; And the Wise Men knew its meaning And journeyed from afar. A star swings out of Heaven— A star of Godlike birth— and its people comes to Earth, To tell the worl ‘When Christma /!eel hand. one of the Pills at bedtime if you Keep a good supply of Ayer’s Family Medicines on It’s so easy then to take a little bilious, or if your- stomach is a trifle out of order, Just so with the ‘Sarsaparilla. A few doses will bring back your lost appetite, give strength to your weakened nerves, and relieve you of that terrible feeling of exhaustion. And besides there are the children to think of, A dose or two at the right time often means so much, 7.0, AYER 00, orwar, Mase: